PM Modi address at centenary celebrations: AMU s help during Covid crisis is unprecedented
The last time a sitting PM attended an event at the Aligarh Muslim University was in 1964, when Lal Bahadur Shastri delivered the convocation address. The way AMU helped society during #COVID19 pandemic is phenomenal, said PM Modi in his address (Image Source: ANI)
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Updated: Dec 22, 2020, 06:35 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, addressed the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students and faculty as the chief guest on the centennial celebrations. AMU, set up in 1920, completes 100 years in 2020. Narendra Modi tweeted from his Twitter account, Speaking at the Aligarh Muslim University. Watch.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday released a postal stamp as part of centenary celebrations of AMU.
PM Modi releases postal stamp as part of AMU s centenary celebrations ANI | Updated: Dec 22, 2020 11:31 IST
New Delhi [India], December 22 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday released a postal stamp as part of centenary celebrations of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
Chancellor of the University Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin and Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank were also present on the occasion.
This is the first time PM Modi is participating in a programme of the Aligarh Muslim University, being held via video conferencing.
Earlier in the week, buildings in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) were illuminated for its centenary celebrations.
Addressing students of Aligarh Muslim University via video conferencing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said AMU s core values were its identity. AMU helped the society during coronavirus pandemic in an unprecedented way by facilitating free tests for thousands, building isolation wards and plasma banks and contributing a large amount to the PM Care Fund. This shows AMU s seriousness in fulfilling their obligations to the society, the prime minister said at the University s centenary celebrations. In the past 100 years, AMU has worked to strengthen India s relations with many countries. The research done here on Urdu, Arabic, and Persian languages, research on Islamic literature gives new energy to India s cultural relations with the entire Islamic world, said PM Modi.
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Tue, Dec 22 2020 02:51:06 PM
New Delhi, Dec 22 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that his government was committed to ushering in development in the country without any discrimination on the basis of religion. I assure you that nobody will be left out and not discriminated against on religious lines. Everyone will move forward by enjoying the Fundamental Rights given in the Constitution, Modi said while addressing through videoconference the centenary celebrations of the Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh.
Modi is only the second Prime Minister to address an AMU function after Lal Bahadur Shastri 56 years ago.